Henry Beston Quotes

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.

Henry Beston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 1, 1888 - April 15, 1968

Topics

ManYouEarthSpiritLeast

The public doesn't particularly care for advertisements.

John C. Malone

CarePublicParticularly

And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.

John Frusciante

LifeLiveLive LifeMeAccomplish

The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.

Melanne Verveer

LifeWorkJobRichLessonImportant

I could never know someone who could hurt someone else and not feel like a horrible person.

Amber Mark

HurtFeelSomeonePersonKnowNever

I thought I'd be the first to introduce herbal tea to Patna. White tea, ginger tea, rooibos, camomile. No one touched it. On subsequent visits, I'd find the packets decorating the shelves in my parents' dining room.

Amitava Kumar

TeaParentsThoughtFindWhiteRoom

I have a love/hate relationship with Amy Grant, but I do go back to her Christmas albums once in a while. They're dated and sentimental and the production is nearly unlistenable, but there's something about her vocal performance that just feels really true. I would take her Christmas albums over Mariah Carey's or Destiny's Child's any day.

Sufjan Stevens

RelationshipDayChildPerformance

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

Robin Marantz Henig

ChildrenPeopleBornHealthyShoe

I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

LifeFamilyWaterWindResultWay

My job is simply to give advice, to be a counselor to our nation's leaders.

Michael Mullen

JobAdviceNationGiveCounselor

Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.

Michael Ritchie

ChairToo MuchSittingCarryWeight

'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American life, and to my own particular child - and girlhood in upstate New York. Everyone in the novel is enormously close to me, including Marianne's cat, Muffin, who was in fact my own cat.

Joyce Carol Oates

LifeHeartNew YorkChildMeThink

I'm happy if my music is being downloaded, whether it's legally or illegally.

Joshua Bell

MusicHappyBeingWhetherLegally

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